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Law enforcement authorities seen outside Addington primary school.
The KwaZulu-Natal Education Department has rejected claims of unfair admission processes at Addington Primary School in Durban.
This after civic movements March and March and Operation Dudula, as well as members of the uMkhonto WeSizwe party, protested outside the school for a second week.
The organisations claim that the school has prioritised placements for immigrant children over South African children, leaving them without space.
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The department’s head, Nkosinathi Ngcobo says no South African child has been denied a place in school because of the space being occupied by a foreign learner.
“The marchers demanded we must admit at Addington Primary School about 66 children that they had on a list. Now, when we scrutinized that list, we found that actually most of them had been admitted in other schools and in fact had attended the school when schools reopened but the parents took their children out of those schools which are not far from where Addington is. So, they want their children to be admitted and they had not applied,” says Ngcobo.
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